HISTORY ST. COLUMBA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARSHFIELD

Date of foundation 1830.

First Church built 1830.

Present Church built 1864.

The Rev’d. Donald MacDonald referred to as first Minister giving service. From the year 1857 to the year 1960, 23 ministers have served the Congregation.

On the front page of the “Prince Edward Island Agricultur- ist” of December 7th, 1940, is a photograph, a copy of an oil painting of the Marshfield Church. The picture recalls the lines from a poem by the gifted Island poetess, Constance I. Heckbert, of Summerside, entitled “The Little Church” in which she says:

The little church is very plain,

It has no gilded dome,

But warmth and kindness are there, And you will feel at home.

With simple faith it strives to serve The gentle souls who pray,

Its doors are ever opened wide

To those who go astray.

There is quiet within its walls, A quiet and breathless calm And all who enter there may feel Its sweet and soothing balm.

I like the little church, because It has a homelike air,

And most of all, Because I feel That God is really there.